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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: 1972 Legnano in the news
Date: 10 Nov 2024 14:51:05 GMT
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John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 21:57:56 -0500, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/9/2024 4:13 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>>> 
>>> I always wear a helmet and if you don't want to wear one it is free 
>>> county, don't wear one. I am not about to argue just that I wear a helmet.
>> 
>> Since this is a discussion group, when you make a statement like 
>> "Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet" you can expect it to be 
>> discussed. There's ample data available calling your statement into 
>> question. Wolfgang knows this.
> 
> "Generally it is much safer to wear a helmet"
> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/
> An average of 247 traumatic brain injury deaths and 140,000 head
> injuries among children and adolescents younger than 20 years were
> related to bicycle crashes each year in the United States. As many as
> 184 deaths and 116,000 head injuries might have been prevented
> annually if these riders had worn helmets.

And yet places with low rates such as the Netherlands or even as helmets
have high useage be that cultural or legal the rate hasn’t been shown to
decrease, judging helmets wearing and none is full of problems ie they tend
to differ more likely to see kids helmets less in poorer areas which also
are generally have more dangerous roads and so on.

Just because Frank has one viewpoint doesn’t mean you have to take the
opposite you know!

Roger Merriman